Glass Half Full and Tulane researchers are winners of the 2023 GizmodoScienceFair for recycling glass bottles and using them to restore shoreline in Louisiana.
Revisiting the sites in October, Trautmann saw that the burlap sacks had broken down, sediments had built up in the area, and the plants placed in the recycled sand“Ultimately, we realized, hey, no one else is gonna do it. The city’s not going to do it, a state’s not going to do it, some large company’s not going to do it... so why not? Why not give it a try? Why not try it ourselves?” said Max Steitz, cofounder of Glass Half Full.
“It’s so exciting, and it’s also really humbling and rewarding to be able to work with a [former] student who is like, going for it,” Julie Alberts, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Tulane University, said. “I can still think back to when I was her age, and I was always very frustrated by environmental conservation efforts, because it was always ‘man, it just doesn’t seem like it’s making a difference.’ I think that this has the potential to be really impactful in our area.
Glass Half Full and researchers with Tulane University are working to see if the pulverized glass sand is suitable for environments beyond the Gulf Coast. They want to make sure that the glass doesn’t harm aquatic animals before deploying it for shoreline restoration in other states. “So we’re already looking at Alabama, Florida, potentially Hawaii,” Trautmann said.
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